Will mankind evolve with larger ears?

Question

Everywhere one looks there are people with Mobile phones glued to their ears, If this trend continues Will the course of evolution change mankinds appearance to one with larger ears and a changed brain to accommodate the increase in electromagnetic radiation around the ear .

Answer 1

This is a unlikely as, if the electromagnetism causes people who are exposed to it to die before the age of reproductive maturity, then they will not get the opportunity to pass their big ear and frazzled brain genes on. It may also cause deformations which are unattractive to the opposite sex and therefore these people will not father/mother as many children and therefore their horrible genes will not be passed on. I think we're safe. However, the research I did at university suggests that men with bigger right ears are better at spatial tasks (tasks supposedly related to successful hunters) and therefore this could actually be quite a sought after trait in adult males.

Answer 2

I doubt ear size has much to do with it at all, so that probably won't evolve in any particular direction, at least not in response to cell phone use. And I suppose, in theory, the brain might change in response to the e.m. radiation, but then again I don't know much about the particular types of radiation cell phones emit or if they affect the brain in any noticeable way.

But if you think about it, evolution has a lot to do with natural selection, and there are plenty of people who can't even afford cell phones who are not dying off because of it. So I doubt that things will change at all. I don't know ... I suppose over millions of years, there will be more people without cell phones who will die in the middle of nowhere because they couldn't call for help, but I doubt that changes due to that would be detectable over the countless other changes that would happen in such a long time. You must also take into account that any negative effects due to cell phone radiation most likely don't take effect until old age, which is past the point of a typical human's reproductive period, so it wouldn't affect how many offspring they produce. Also, I imagine that the effects it would have would have something to do with intelligence, memory, hearing level, brain cancer, or other things like that, and people who are stupid, deaf, who have bad memories, or who have brain cancer (or who will have brain cancer ... I suppose once you actually have it, you decline too rapidly to have a chance to reproduce) are reproducing every day . In fact (sorry to be politically incorrect here), people with lower intelligences are more likely to have a lower socioeconomic status, and people of lower socioeconomic status generally have more children than people of higher socioeconomic status, so according to that, humans should be evolving to be even less intelligent ...

But basically, getting back on track here, I doubt cell phones will influence evolution in any detectable way.

Answer 3

I could copy paste information from the internet but i guess you could do that yourself sooooo i'm going to try and explain to you how it works. First of all you have to know that living creatures are not perfect, they are no made by "intelligent design" there are many animals that have gotten extinct due to the way they evolved. An example would be the dodo, a bird that lost his physical ability to fly and couldn't survive the arrival of humans, dogs and monkeys. therefore, he went extinct... sadly. When an organism reproduces, his offspring have mutations... what's this mutation? well, any change they have, Example: you are no exactly like your dad or mom, why? cause you mutated in a very low level. What happens if you have children and they have children, etc. in millions years? by that time there would have been lots of mutations. Do mutations happen so that animals can survive? NO IT DOES NOT. This is were natural selection comes in, those who mutated in a way that are able to survive... survive, and those who mutated in a way that can't survive... die. Penguins aren't like they are cause they chose to, they are just one of many mutations that occurred over millions of years. Animals do not chose to evolve nor their body, there is no other connection other than natural selection. The body has no way to know how they should evolve, they just mutate and if they mutate in a way that helps them survive, then they have more probability to have children and so goes on...

Answer 4

...no...b/c..i dont think ear SIZE has anything to do with hearing ability. I see people will physically small ears that hear as good as someone with rabbit ears. I have perfectly sized, normal looking ears, but I'm 80% deaf. If anything... the constant cellular use with cause a decrease in hearing the same way headphones cause hearing issues, so that might pass through the generations and lower hearing abilities.

Answer 5

Evolution takes thousands, if not millions of years to make a noticable change. There is a chance that our technological developments will intervene and change us within the next few hundred years. There are already a lot of people who would willingly line up and pay to be physically altered for style, comfort and of course for their well-being.
Evolution is a change caused by a requirement, but if we change ourselves evolution becomes redundant.

Answer 6

Not unless all of mankind moves
out onto the plains and plattos of
mother Earth where the voice can be
carried for many o miles. As in,:
"HALLOW OVER THERE!" echo...echo..eco.

Perhaps then over millineau
the humanoid-species would
express itself and adapt
to this new environment
by growing outer-ear-appendages
the size of mud-flaps?

Answer 7

No.
Evolution has shown that with decrease in need of hearing for food, ear lobes have shortened, and not increased.
Even with gadgets like mobile phones, we can still hear clearly, we don't strive to hear sounds at greater distance. So, earlobes will remain the same....or may be shortened. But it will not increase.

Answer 8

Um, probably not.

Of the three billion people in the world, I'm sure only a vast minority have one of those things. Besides, technology is adapted to people's bodies so that bodies don't have to adapt to the environment. Not the other way around!

Answer 9

No but i suspect that body shapes can be chaged by chemical warfare like putting stuf in certain foods that can efect one, or their behaviour, stuff that could depress or demoralise, so as to keep them quiet and subdued.

Answer 10

Theory of Evolution is a fable. Man was not evolved and will never evolve. Man may degenerate into cannibals and nude community in jungles. Physical anthropology produced faked Piltdown Man and others. Be alert and have independant thinking. Human beings are noble creature of God. Read Bible and know truth.